But then he broke his glasses.
Posted on 09/24/2022 4:31:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Rod Serling: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. - This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths - in The Twilight Zone.
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This is a TZ classic.
One of my favorite episodes!
One of my favorite TZ episodes! :-)
Ironically he’s called “Romney” lol lol
It certainly is. Rod Serling himself wrote it.
Saw Rod Serling do a lecture/appearance at a college campus. It was memorable, for one reason being the F bombs were flying everywhere. The man was not bashful in his reproach of the establishment.
I have the entire series on dvd, including one episode they claim has only been shown on TV once. I simply love that series. But if you really watch the message in most of the series you can see where they were laying the groundwork for the political correctness we have now.
“The state has proven that there is no God”
Gee, who is doing that today?
I’m a Blade Runner.
I “retire” replicants.
Rod Serling said the biggest stress he got from producing the Twilight zone was having to deal with the networks and censorship. If there was any political correctness, you can bet it wasn’t coming from him
Wow, He was always a tough vet wasn’t he. I actually visited his grave site a long time ago in the 1990s up in Seneca county New York. Just a modest plaque in the ground mentioning his service. The guy was one of the rare ones who could actually be tagged as a bonafide genius as far as I’m concerned
I firmly agree. The man was a genius.
Burgess Meredith .
5.56mm
My favorite episode.
“Let me out! Let me out! In the name of God let me out!”
“Yes Chancellor, in the name of God”
This is the closing narration by Serling, written 100% by him...
“The chancellor, the *late* chancellor, was only partly correct: He *was* obsolete; but so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state or entity becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures nations, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, yet convinces nobody; when it dons armor and calls it faith, when in the eyes of God it is naked, having no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of humanity... That state is obsolete. A case to be filed under “M” for Mankind — in The Twilight Zone. “
The link below tells about RS an Army active duty in WWII.
But then he broke his glasses.
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